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There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.
I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes because it does not destroy the natural surface of wood.
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.
If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
What would people be surprised to know about me? That I love cooking and chopping wood for the heating system in my house.
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.
I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy source.
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
I think there can be no replacement for teaching people how to make things by showing them how to stick two pieces of wood together.